Fedora 22: 2015-8303 Moderate: Hostapd Integer Underflow Attack Risk
fedora
May 26, 2015
Security update for integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing.
Summary
hostapd is a user space daemon for access point and authentication servers. It
implements IEEE 802.11 access point management, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP
Authenticators and RADIUS authentication server.
hostapd is designed to be a "daemon" program that runs in the back-ground and
acts as the backend component controlling authentication. hostapd supports
separate frontend programs and an example text-based frontend, hostapd_cli, is
included with hostapd.
Update Information:
Security update for integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing.
Topics Covered
Change Log
* Fri May 15 2015 John W. Linville
References
[ 1 ] Bug #1221178 - wpa_supplicant and hostapd: integer underflow in AP mode WMM Action frame processing
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1221178
Update Instructions
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update hostapd' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .
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Name: hostapd
Product: Fedora 22
Version: 2.4
Release: 2.fc22
Summary: IEEE 802.11 AP, IEEE 802.1X/WPA/WPA2/EAP/RADIUS Authenticator
Topics Covered
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